The NHL doesn't have a team in Houston, so I'm pretty confident that most of you don't follow the league, and don't have any idea about some of the severe financial problems facing many of the southern teams. The NHL has intervened in Phoenix in an attempt to find new ownership for the club. A part owner of the Nashville Predators recently pled guilty to securities fraud - some of the proceeds from the fraud were used to purchase the Predators. There have been reports that the
There's not much discussion of the Texas Rangers down in these parts -- except for when they're beating the asses of the Houston Astros, which they seem to do quite often. So Tom Hicks announcing now that he's willing to sell a majority interest in the franchise normally wouldn't generate much interest in Houston.Normally, that it is. Except when Houston icon Nolan Ryan might be involved.Ryan is a partner in two successful minor league franchises affiliated with the Houston Astros, the Round Roc
​Richard Justice is a columnist,
not a reporter. And as part of his job, he's supposed to give
his opinions, no matter how wrong I think they usually are. But
that said, when he's writing an opinion piece trashing Klein High School's Matthew
Purke for turning down a $4-million-a-year contract with the
Texas Rangers so as to go to TCU, Justice really owes it to everybody
to make sure his opinion is really based on the facts of what actually
happened.
So that you don't actually
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